Research Interests: Philosophy of Love, Theories of Emotion, Philosophy of Sex, Imagination, Aesthetics, Theories of Illness and Disease, Philosophy of Mind, training of creative and academic writing skills

Academic Education: I finished my studies in Philosophy, English and German as a teaching profession with a thesis on the question Is there an Aesthetic Pleasure?, in 2014. I was committed to university policy for many years during my studies. In 2016 I started working on my PhD project On the Capabilityto Love aiming to understand the role that so-called deficient loving has for the concept of love (Supervisor Matthias Vogel). I am working on an integrative concept of love that is capable of explaining in how far to love always implies both options of success and deficit. This approach I label an ability and action theory of love according to which attempts in loving construe a loving relation and instantiate certain capabilities to love, which for their part need to be acquired and cultivated just as any other capabilities that human beings instantiate within their living practices.